Graduate Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine

Are you interested in being part of the exciting new frontier of Lifestyle Medicine and want to learn from leaders in the field? Avondale offers two postgraduate courses via distance education, the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine.

Course highlights:

Designed by pioneers in Lifestyle Medicine and units are taught by highly qualified lecturers who are research active in the field.

Study online in your own time, allowing you to fit your study around your work, family and lifestyle commitments.

What is Lifestyle Medicine?

It is well recognised that practicing healthy lifestyle habits can prevent many of the diseases that kill the vast majority of people. For example, over 90% of type 2 diabetes, over 80% of heart attacks and about one third of cancers are preventable.

Over the past few decades, a growing body of evidence is showing that not only is a healthy lifestyle effective for preventing disease, it can also be used to manage and in some instances treat established conditions. Lifestyle is medicine! This has led to the emergence of the field of "Lifestyle Medicine", which is defined by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine as "the use of lifestyle interventions in the treatment and management of disease".

Lifestyle Medicine seeks to treat the causes of chronic disease, which include: poor nutrition, physical inactivity, substance abuse, stress, environmental factors, and even issues relating to identity and meaning. Hence, Lifestyle Medicine is broad and comprehensive in its scope.

It is widely accepted that Lifestyle Medicine will become increasingly relied upon in the future to combat the burgeoning rise in chronic diseases. The Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate courses in Lifestyle Medicine at Avondale are designed to equip graduates with an understanding of the various domains of Lifestyle Medicine and skills in its application. Back to the top

Course Details

The Graduate Diploma in Lifestyle Medicine (course code 2085) involves the following eight units that are available on a part time basis (maximum two units per semester). The units and their sequencing are as follows:

Admission Information

Students can enter the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine from any Australian Level 7 Bachelors degree (or equivalent).

The postgraduate courses in Lifestyle Medicine are available to citizens and residents of Australia as well as to international students studying outside of Australia. They are not available to international students who are in Australia on a Student visa.